In Sheung Wan, at one of the charity’s two hostels, she shares a room with several other women facing similar battles, including domestic abuse by their employers. They have been waiting to have their cases heard at a tribunal or criminal court.

Puja Kapai, Faculty of Law, HKU, said the employment contract failed to stipulate maximum working hours and the extent of a helper’s duties, and that abolishing the live-in rule might be one step towards empowering them

Prem Tamang is doing everything to keep his family together, but without a home or reliable job, his family is vulnerable to the human traffickers preying on the victims of last year’s earthquake in Nepal.

Global

Child trafficking victims and unaccompanied children are going missing from local authority care at an “alarming” rate according to a new report, which reveals that in one year, nearly 30% of all UK child trafficking victims and 13% of unaccompanied children disappeared from care services.

“I was told harshly to get in the car as the woman exchanged money and my travel documents with an Arab man,” said a survivor of human trafficking, one of the plight of Zimbabwe women trafficked into servitude in Kuwait. Along with seven other women, she worked 23 hours a day cleaning the 15-bedroom house, forced to survive on leftovers that she secretly ate in the bathroom.

Resources

“Between a Rock and a Hard Place” ─ a documentary shed light on illegal activities of employment agencies

Date: 1 November 2016

A short documentary film and report by the Progressive Labor Union of Domestic Workers – Hong Kong as Hong Kong Federation of Asian Domestic Workers Unions (FADWU), documents the illegal activities of employment agencies in Hong Kong, and the failure of the government to protect the rights of Filipino migrant domestic workers.